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On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Erich Heinzle wrote:
> Which CJK symbol set should ideally be used is not the rate limiting step
> here, unicode support within symbol definitions is.

I agree - and that would have many other benefits too, because there
are many characters and symbols people might want to use on PCBs besides
Chinese.  Even just a few of the symbols in the Zapf Dingbats range would
be nice to have.
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Matthew Skala
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